Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Did your community celebrate last night?

[Lyle Scheer (wonko]

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Carol Agate wrote:
> In the rather distant past I might have been concerned about excluding  
> conservatives. But with our recent experience with conservatism it is  
> diametrically opposed to the values that are a part of cohousing. I  
> wouldn't find it comfortable to be a part of a community in which  
> people were unconcerned about global warming, believed saving embryos  
> is more important than doing research to save the lives and health of  
> living people, did not think it was a basic right to have medical  
> care, believed low taxes are more important than education, were  
> opposed to equal rights for gays and lesbians, etc. As long as the  
> Republican party espouses values so completely antithetical to mine, I  
> am not looking for political diversity.

There are certain cultural values that the Republican party has taken on
that I would not label conservative.  I think you've done a good job of
listing most of them.

Personally, I'm more of a libertarian bent though I have been registered
as a green for more than a decade.  I believe there are certain places
where government intervention in markets is appropriate, such as
creating a cost accounting for carbon emissions from industries and cars
and making sure it gets paid....

trying to bring this back to a topic that is group relevant, cohousing
works for me because it is part of "think globally, act locally" and
many design values of Bear Grass Village in Ashland have been green
values.  We need more of that, and the consumer can provide that by
choosing wisely how to spend their money, not the government.

- - Lyle
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